WordPress Membership-Plugins: Help Me Choose.

I've tried about 12 paid and a few free plugins and never found one that I was happy with...

Eventually I went with a stand-alone membership software. It's kinda pricey but it does everything I want and more...

Here is the one I use today ~> FusionHQ Internet Business Platform

I've been using them for about 18 months or so and I love it!

Good luck.

Cheers,
Coby

P.S. I think they do have a WP plugin that works with their system, for what it's worth.

By using a WP membership plugin, you're putting all your customer's names, emails and more in your WP database. And although that WP membership database might be secure, it's only as secure as the crappiest plugin on your website.

If you're running a WP plugin that can easily be compromised, then everything gets compromised in your database....WP membership database included. And personally speaking, I really don't want to have that conversation with my customers. "Yeah...my database got compromised...so now you're compromised because of a crappy 3rd party plugin that was exploited."

Then come the speed issues. The minute I install any membership plugin, I start seeing slowdowns that affect my front end sales.

That's why I stopped using a plugin to manage my memberships, products and sales years ago. My WordPress website's sole role is to remain fast, sell on the frontend and bring traffic. I don't want it managing a membership site as well.

EDIT: It's nice to see I'm not alone in Coby's response. He's using FusionHQ, I'm using Nanacast. There's also 1ShoppingCart, Zaxaa, Ultracart, Shopify and a host of other 3rd party solutions that can properly manage sales/affiliates, deliver memberships/products and secure your sensitive customer data.

s2member
memberpress

WOW, some great responses here. Lots of information that I will research over the next few weeks as I prepare to get my site going.

Thanks very much for these replies. Any other suggestions, or info, will be greatly appreciated.

I have used Warrior Press - which is pretty good, but I now tend to use a very simple free plugin that simply locks posts and pages to Wordpress users.

I use my license manager plugin to control content visibility for various license holders.

Like Jesus Perez says - it's best to leave autoresponder functionality to the autoresponder.

Have heard some very good things lately too about Wishlist.

I still think the best WP Membership plugin is MemberMouse. Their support and tutorials for "newbies" definitely fits what you are looking for…

The other good news is you can start for $20…

Yeah, it's $20/month…but that business model allows them to take care of their current customers and not have to always chase new customers just to stay in business. Plus it allows them to keep updating the plugin and improving it.

Worth taking a look at…actually they have a 14-day trial, so you can give it a test run for 2 weeks before being charged.

I use Membership software - aMember Pro .

I also simply use autoresponders as well to deliver monthly content.

Works well.

For a quickie, I use a FB group that is closed. Folks get access only when I get paid.

Check this one WP Pro Membership - Best WordPress Membership Plugin . You will see many other membership plugin all are for managing membership in your site. But this one is not only for managing membership but also to boost up your sales through integrated MLR (Multi-Level Referral) system.

I used wishlist right now i'm trying optimize member pm me if you want fredback

s2member plugin will integrate in most paying sites easily. You can check that one.

digital access pass (DAP) is probably the best one out there. I have been using it for quite a while. Tons of feature and one of the few plugin that fully sync with JVzoo.

I use DAP (and very happy) but definitely looking to switch over to MemberMouse or MemberPress or Paid Memberships PRO because of better user interface and ease-of-use setup as well as other helpful functionalities.

You can check out SiteManPro, it's a stand-alone membership platform.

- Nizam

Folks,

For those of you in this thread who wished DAP had a better interface, your wish is coming true in the new year (yes, I did read your comments, 56villages :-) )

We're working on a big interface update that's coming out soon, along with more power features for existing users, and better usability.

>>However, I suppose it's a matter of css styling for DAP to have a nice, inviting and appealing user interface. Once they do so, the rest is history. They will grab a big market share. They will eat the competition's lunch. Because at the end of the day, they have a far superior membership plugin that does more than the other ones<<

Hoping to get to that "lunch" soon :-)

Cheers!

- Veena & Ravi

And just to clarify, the interface that people are referring to here, is the DAP Admin interface.

Your member's area is all WordPress (no DAP there) - so your content, your articles, your videos, etc - can all be as pretty as you want it to be, depending on the WordPress theme you choose and how you design your "look & feel". Your members will never see the DAP Admin interface - that's just for the DAP Admins only. Just FYI.

- Ravi Jayagopal

just use your membership plugin on a separate domain or a subdomin and make regular scheduled back ups and you should be just fine.

If DAP ever came out with a real unlimited Developer license I might give them a try, but as a developer thats a deal killer not having a real dev lic like other scripts. JMO

I know several people using Paid Membership Pro. It's probably what I will try in the near future.

WordPress Membership Plugin: Get Paid with Paid Memberships Pro